Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallery owners are now shopping in Manhattan for U.S. moderns). But this summer is the first time Europe has had a wholesale view of what the U.S. abstractionists have to offer. For the story of the excitement, controversy and bafflement the show has aroused, along with four pages of color reproductions, see ART, American Abstraction Abroad...
...necessary," exclaimed Madrid Artist Manolo Millares, 32. "We've been wanting it for years." The 200-odd aficionados who milled around the huge canvases at the opening rapidly began sorting out impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most admired: "furious vitality," "unbiased liberty," "a renovating spirit." Cried Critic Eduardo Cirlot: "The most important show that Spain has seen in the last 25 years. There...
From the splashes of Pollock and De Kooning to the finely executed color planes of Rothko. the movement has a wide range of identifiable styles. Each painter produces his own subjective expression without regard for what it communicates. The absence of any recognizable visual imagery has struck many critics and philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds...
Competing alone against two Scripps-Howard papers, the staid Times-Star resorted to promotion contests, bigger headlines and color pictures. The Post cannily counterattacked by becoming more conservative, toned down its headlines and crime coverage, concentrated more and more on worthy civic projects...
...open," said a trade paper ad (subject to other interpretations) by 20th Century-Fox that called attention to $472,000 worth of wide-screen science, filmed in "terror-color," concerning a fellow who has learned how to decompose and recompose matter electronically. Soon he has accidentally concocted two creatures consisting of parts of himself and parts of a horsefly. Fox, now that its Fly is open, offers a careful "$100 to the first person who can prove it can't happen...